The rent goes out on its own. For 36 months.
Long-term leasing is a business of regularity: the rent, the kilometre cap, the term. Margin is lost in the gaps: the kilometre never compared, the overrun discovered at return, the renewal endured. Backlane holds the regularity and measures the gaps.
The km overrun sleeps for 36 months
Compared once, at return, it becomes a dispute. Compared every month, it is an invoice line.
The B2B rent waits
Corporate customers pay structured chasers, not Friday reminders. Without cadence, DSO settles in.
Per-vehicle margin is invisible
Lessor cost on one side, rent on the other, never reconciled: impossible to know which vehicle earns its keep.
Unbilled kilometres · Unpaid invoices & collections · E-invoicing 2026
A thirty-six month contract, brought down to the day.
In long-term leasing, margin is decided at signature and lost afterwards, day after day, in amounts too small to raise an alarm. Here is where it goes.
Illustrative example built on observed orders of magnitude. Gap: 31% of the contract margin, lost without a single line saying so.
None of those three leaks is worth opening a spreadsheet for. Together, across three hundred vehicles, they are worth a full-time role. That is exactly the work the agents do without being asked.
Do my lessor financings enter Backlane?
Yes: financing contracts import (lessor, upstream rent, term), and the upstream cost is reconciled with the downstream rent, vehicle by vehicle. Margin stops being a year-end estimate.
My contracts have different caps per customer?
That is the normal case: the cap, extra-kilometre rate and rent rhythm are read contract by contract. There is no one-size setup to endure.
When does e-invoicing concern me?
From September 2026 for reception, 2026-2027 for issuing depending on size. On Backlane your rents already go out as Factur-X: the topic disappears.
No commitment. Nothing changes with your current tools or insurer.